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[Hal MacArgle <halinux AT kvinet.com>]

On 08-17, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> 
> > Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > >
> > > Most (maybe all) of the time when I dial with BL3 I am 
> > > told that device ttyS1 is locked and it won't dial.  
> > > first I dialed with Kermit in DOS and then booted 
> > > to linux and dialed.  Would this be causing the problem?  
> > 
> > Probably.  It appears the stale lock is from DOS.
> > 
> > > Is there a fix, other than dialing twice?  
> > 
> > Reset the computer before booting Linux.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.  Dialing twice is probably faster than
> rebooting DOS in my case.  I was hoping I could just type some command to
> open the stale lock (maybe include it in a dial script)..  I am still
> going online in DOS because DOS kermit has a scroll buffer in MDA mode.  
> But soon there may be an 'mgacon'!


        Go to /var/lock and rm LCK*??????

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20-1)
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